2008-11-05

THE NEWSCASTER PLEASE

RECYCLE

Deborah Russell - Editor/Publisher Tom Russell - Consulting Editor Mike Moore - Photojournalist Sally Price Correspondent

Wednesday November 5, 2008

A Publication of Newscaster Publishing

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Sixty-nine-year-old Howard Charles Bowman, 11692 N. Kenlake Cir., Dunnellon, was charged with commercial dumping by the Florida Deartment of Environmental Protection (FDEP) on Oct. 29. His bond was set at $2000. Special Agent Chad Paul with the FDEP had received a complaint on Aug. 15, regarding illegal dumping in wetlands along the Withlacoochee River in Dunnellon, on property Charles Bowman owned by Oscar Leroy Attaway, located at 12472 N. Leffant Ter., Dunnellon. According to the report, Mr. Bowman, the owner of Bowman Tree Service, had instructed his employees to dump tree debris on the property. Bowman told the investigator that two employees had been approached by Mr. Attaway while they were cutting down trees at a property adjacent to his. He said that Attaway had asked them to dump the logs onto his property when they were finished with the work. Bowman said he'd spoken with Attaway by phone, and he had told him that Continued on page 3 - Illegal Dumping

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Investigators Searching For Answers in Murder-Suicide The medical examiner's office in Leesburg determined, Nov. 1, that the gunshot deaths of Alicia Chomic and her three young sons are consistent with a murder-suicide. The four bodies were discovered the morning of Oct. 31 by Chomic's mother, Vicki Maslowski and her husband, Greg, Chomic's stepfather, at their Floral City home, located at 4983 E. Stoer Lane. Authorities believe that Ms Chomic shot her three sons, then turned the gun on herself, sometimes during the evening of Oct. 30. The children were Anthony Lietz, Jr., fifteen months old; Damian Lietz, twoand-a-half years old; and Thomas Goldsmith, Jr., nearly four years old, according to the Citrus County Sheriff's Office. Chomic had moved into the Maslowski's home, just three days earlier, possibly from Pasco County. The bodies were found in a bedroom. Anthony, the youngest child, was shot while he was in his bassinet, and the bodies of the other two boys, Damian and Thomas, were found on the bed with their mother. A firearm was found nearby. Detectives have not found a suicide note, but are attempting to find an explanation for Chomic's actions. According to several reports, she has no history of violence and was known to be a loving, capable mother

who doted on her children. It could take up to six months before authorities receive the results of the autopsy toxicology testing. T h e Maslowski's, both 45, were taken to Citrus Memorial Hospital in Inverness by ambulance, due to becoming distraught upon finding the bodies, but they were later released. Neither was present during the inAlicia Chomic cident. According to the Tampa Tribune, the father of Chomic's oldest son, Thomas Anthony Goldsmith, 25, is incarcerated at the Wakulla Correctional Institution in Crawfordville. He was arrested on Oct. 9 for violating probation and is scheduled to be released in March. Goldsmith has previously been convicted on charges of possession of a controlled substance, stalking, battery, and domestic violence. The Tampa Tribune also reported that the father of Chomic's two youngest boys, Anthony Lietz, 25, of Pasco County, has been convicted on charges of grand theft and possession of a controlled substance. In Continued on page 3 - Murder-Suicide